I started the new year with a minor Allingham binge and, having now read a fair number of her Campion mysteries (12, i.e. 2/3 of the 18 novels that she herself completed), I think I can safely say that while I won't ever like this series as much as I do those of Christie, Sayers, and Marsh, when All...
Well, I suppose that's what I get for not checking a book's online blurbs before reading it. I downoladed this book purely because it was available on Audible and it was one of Allingham's Campion books that I hadn't read yet. Turns out its plot chiefly rests on not one but two mystery tropes I do...
My Square Markers and "Virgin" Bingo Card: "Virgin" card posted for ease of tracking and comparison. Black Kitty:Read but not called Black Vignette:Called but not read Black Kitty in Black Vignette:Read and Called Black Kitty Center Square: Read = Called Current Status of Sprea...
With thanks to Netgalley and Penguin for this ARC in exchange for an open and honest review. I enjoyed Fiona's last book The Good Girl, I have to admit when I saw The Betrayals I requested it before reading the synopsis. I am glad to say Fiona did not betray the trust I had in her writing, I love...
Wow. This was a lovely book. I thought the reader of the audiobook did a great job, although the voice he used for Odysseus was both annoying and too distinctive, giving the game away at one point where the author had intended the identity of the speaker to be a mystery. I had wondered how the book...
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